Adding a new blog to the blog roll – Terry Freedman’s ICT in Education.
He recently had a particularly interesting summary of a presentation at NAACE 2009 by Angela McFarlane titled: “The Myth of the Digital Native: http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2010/1/17/the-myth-of-the-digital-native.html
Interesting exploration of this topic — but as always — seems to come back around to same themes:
1. Unless teachers are technology users personnally, not very effective with the tools in the classroom.
2. Unless teachers restructure lessons to truly engage with the material and technological tools, not much is gained by the tools alone.
Which almost always leads us back to the conclusion that our current technology investment is way under-utilized by teachers and students.
Surprised?
Joel
